This summer’s research program was a fun and new experience. Although I have been doing research in Dr. Primm’s lab for the last two years, this summer was different. I was able to actually go out and catch the fish we use in lab and prepare for the experiment in a timely manner. The experience of working in a lab over the summer without any sort of interruption like having to study for an upcoming test or having to leave an experiment to get to a class on time was a lot less stressful. The work I did during the summer made me more prepared for my future towards furthering my education whether it is a PhD or MD. As a student, I have become so accustomed to just the ins and out of class life or studying for class that when the opportunity of working in the lab under the grant came about I was ecstatic to actually get to say I am being paid to do work that I love to do. The research that I was working on was geared towards the medical career that I would love to be in. The project was the testing of a broad-spectrum antibiotic on a local fish to see what the effect was on the fish. This case can directly relate to what I want to do in the career I am striving for, because I don’t want to be one of those doctors that just prescribes medicine to patients and then sends them on their way. Instead, I want to make sure the patient is properly taken care of. With the research that I did over the summer it showed me the effect of what an antibiotic can do to the microbiome of a fish you have to wonder what the antibiotics that humans take are doing to our microbiomes. This summer research program was an awesome experience I would not change or have given up to do anything else. Even if I was to have the opportunity to have gone on a vacation I would not have taken it. The summer research program was a once in a life time opportunity and I recommend anyone interested in a career in research to try to have the same opportunity that I was given.